ὀρύζιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὄρυζον (óruzon, “rice”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.rýz.di.on/ → /oˈry.zi.on/ → /oˈri.zi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.rýz.di.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈry.zi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈry.zi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈry.zi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈri.zi.on/

Noun

ὀρῠ́ζῐον • (orúzion) n (genitive ὀρῠζῐ́ου); second declension

1. rice

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὀρῠ́ζῐον; τοῦ ὀρῠζῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὀρῠ́ζῐον tò orúzion	τὼ ὀρῠζῐ́ω tṑ oruzíō	τᾰ̀ ὀρῠ́ζῐᾰ tà orúzia
Genitive	τοῦ ὀρῠζῐ́ου toû oruzíou	τοῖν ὀρῠζῐ́οιν toîn oruzíoin	τῶν ὀρῠζῐ́ων tôn oruzíōn
Dative	τῷ ὀρῠζῐ́ῳ tôi oruzíōi	τοῖν ὀρῠζῐ́οιν toîn oruzíoin	τοῖς ὀρῠζῐ́οις toîs oruzíois
Accusative	τὸ ὀρῠ́ζῐον tò orúzion	τὼ ὀρῠζῐ́ω tṑ oruzíō	τᾰ̀ ὀρῠ́ζῐᾰ tà orúzia
Vocative	ὀρῠ́ζῐον orúzion	ὀρῠζῐ́ω oruzíō	ὀρῠ́ζῐᾰ orúzia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ὀρύζιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀρύζιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀρύζιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press